Here’s the status of the Florida Panthers these days: The owner is disappointed, the general manager is angry and the players are underachieving.

Add it up, and it means the coach is fired.

Kevin Dineen — the only coach to win a division championship in Panthers history — was let go yesterday morning, a move that general manager Dale Tallon called “the first of many changes” that are coming to a franchise that finished at the bottom of the NHL last season and is off to one of the worst starts in the league this year.

Peter Horachek was summoned from the team’s American Hockey League affiliate in San Antonio to replace Dineen on an interim basis.

“If players don’t respond to this, they won’t be Panthers for very long,” Tallon said.

Dineen, a former Blue Jackets player who was in his third season with the Panthers, was told of the move yesterday morning. Florida lost in Boston 4-1 on Thursday night, the team’s seventh straight loss and 10th in 11 games.

Tallon said he’s been considering a change for a long time and that the decision was not easy. Florida has only three wins in 16 games this season. Already this year, 11 teams have at least 10 wins.

The Panthers are 3-9-4 going into a game today at Ottawa.

“It’s embarrassing,” Panthers forward Shawn Matthias said after the loss in Boston on Thursday night. “I can’t remember the last time we won. There are no positives right now.”

Florida also fired assistant coaches Gord Murphy and Craig Ramsay, replacing them with former players Brian Skrudland and John Madden.

Dineen was 56-62-28 in parts of three seasons, leading the Panthers to the 2012 Southeast Division title and guiding the team into the playoffs for the first time since 2000.

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